Ch. 3 Physical Evidence Notes

True or False: Most items of physical evidence retrieved at crime scenes can be linked definitively to a single person or object

• True

• False

The significance given to physical evidence is a determination left entirely to the ________________

• criminal defense attorney

• prosecutor

• jury

• forensic scientist

The conclusion of a comparison and processing of evidence can range from _____________ (guesswork/theory/opinion) to near certainty.

Class evidence is by its nature not unique, but they are extremely diverse in our environment.

• True

• False

Physical evidence is one of the most common types of evidence found at a crime scene.

• False

• True

Who made this comment on the need for physical evidence:

“This is evidence that does not forget. It is not confused by the excitement of the moment. It is not absent because human witnesses are. It is factual evidence. Physical evidence cannot be wrong, it cannot perjure itself, it cannot be wholly absent.”

• Mathieu Orfila

• R.F. Borkenstein

• Edmond Locard

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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At crime scenes, it is usually more likely that investigators find individual physical evidence rather than class physical evidence

• True

• False

Blood Type, Paint, or Dye are all examples of what type of evidence?

• direct

• class

• individual

• speculative

Fingerprints, unusual wear patterns, and toolmarks are all examples of what type of evidence?

• direct

• class

• individual

• speculative

What physical evidence does.... It can _________________ or refute testimony

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